Show #3949 2001-11-01 (taped 2001-09-25) Tournament of Champions

2001 Tournament of Champions final game 1.

Contestants

Rick Knutsen — a musician from Brooklyn, New York

Brad Rutter — a network administrator from Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Tad Carithers — an attorney from Atlanta, Georgia

Scores

Player First Commercial End of Jeopardy! End of Double Jeopardy! Final Coryat
Tad $600 $1,900 $3,300 $1,300 $4,300
17 R (including 1 DD), 6 W (including 1 DD)
Brad $700 $1,600 $6,000 $2,500 $6,000
17 R, 3 W
Rick $3,100 $3,900 $6,500 $3,000 $5,500
18 R (including 1 DD), 2 W

Jeopardy! Round

THE NEAREST CONTINENT FEMINISM SPACE THEY GOT MILK, TOO? NAME THE SPORT QUASI-RELATED PAIRS
$100 [6]
Baffin Island
North America
Rick
$100 [9]
The 1848 feminist "Declaration of Sentiments" adds these 2 words to 1776's "All men are created equal"
"and women"
Tad
$100 [15]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew hangs out with a probe replica at the Jet Propulsion Lab.) In 1995 on Jupiter, this craft, named for a scientist, made the first direct measurements of a giant planet's atmosphere
Galileo
Rick
$100 [22]
In their "got milk?" ad, these tennis sisters said, "Make ours doubles"
the Williams Sisters (Serena & Venus)
Rick
$100 [14]
Carpet, hazards, a windmill, a castle
putt-putt (or miniature golf)
Tad
$100 [1]
An Academy Award & a famous cartoon cat
Oscar & Felix
Rick
$200 [7]
Hainan
Asia
Brad
$200 [10]
The Violence Against Women Act of 2000 addresses this behavior ranging from lying in wait to actual harassment
stalking
Rick
$200 [25]
This is the largest of the terrestrial planets; it has one of the largest satellites as well
Earth
Tad
$200 [23]
The "Be a Dark Knight" milk ad featured this comic book superhero
Batman
Tad
$200 [16]
11 teammates, a center circle, a penalty area, a goal
soccer
Brad
$200 [2]
Sodium chloride, for example, & a park at the southern tip of Manhattan
a salt & Battery
Tad
$300 [8]
Trinidad & Tobago
South America
Tad
$300 [11]
This American tennis tournament evened men's & women's prize money in 1973; Wimbledon still hasn't
the U.S. Open
Tad
$300 [26]
(Sofia of the Clue Crew, dressed for a clean environment, delivers the clue from the Jet Propulsion Lab.) You're looking at a Cassini spacecraft, like the one en route to study Titan, a moon of this planet
Saturn
Rick
$300 [24]
This animated kids' group had 2 ads; one had them "in Paris"
the Rugrats
Brad
$300 [19]
6 teammates, a center line, a blue line, a crease
ice hockey
Tad
$300 [3]
A postgraduate degree & Lithgow's male offspring
Master's & John's son
Rick
$400 [17]
East Frisian Islands
Europe
Brad
$400 [12]
Sometimes shortened to MCP, this negative term had a vogue with early women's libbers
male chauvinist pig
Rick
$400 [27]
Johann Bode proposed the name of a mythological father for this planet
Uranus
Tad Rick
$400 [29]
This rock group sported chocolate mustaches that could be seen on their white makeup
Kiss
Brad
$400 [20]
4 teammates, a safety zone, a 40 yard mark, goal posts
polo
Brad
$400 [4]
"Lolita" actor James & psychic Jeane
Mason & Dixon
Rick
$500 [18]
Sao Tome & Principe
Africa
Tad
DD $1,500 [13]
Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby signed it at home Aug. 26, 1920; his wife & daughters must have been excited
the 19th Amendment
Rick
$500 [28]
(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Jet Propulsion Lab.) I'm in the Mars yard with a model of this Martian rover, whose name also means "a visitor"
Sojourner
$500 [30]
A 2000 ad showing this pop sensation at ages 3 & 18 was the 100th "got milk?" ad
Britney Spears
Tad
$500 [21]
4 teammates, a house, a hog line, a tee line
curling
$500 [5]
A song on a CD & a chosen area of study
track & field
Brad

Double Jeopardy! Round

SHAKESPEARE DOGS OF WAR THE BIG WHIGS LAKES & RIVERS THE BRITISH MUSEUM FINISH THE "LOVE"LY LYRIC
$200 [4]
"Come on, and kiss me, Kate" is actually a line in this comedy that inspired the musical "Kiss Me, Kate"
The Taming of the Shrew
Brad
$200 [7]
Stubby, a bull terrier, helped in the battles at Chateau Thierry, the Marne & the Meuse-Argonne in this war
World War I
Rick
$200 [1]
In 1840 the 2 major political parties in the U.S. were the Whigs & this party
the Democrats
Brad
$200 [21]
World Book reports 3-foot-long trout are among the fish found in this lake that borders Peru & Bolivia
Lake Titicaca
Tad Rick
$200 [22]
The museum once housed 2 copies of this 1215 document, now in the British Library
the Magna Carta
Rick
$200 [8]
Stephen Stills:"And the eagle flies with the dove, & if you can't be with the one you love, honey..."
"love the one you're with"
Rick
$400 [15]
"Henry VI, Part I" features the master-gunner of Orleans & this woman known in the play as Joan la Pucelle
Joan of Arc
Brad
$400 [10]
Scout dog York completed 148 combat patrols in this "police action"
the Korean War
Tad
$400 [2]
With members like Daniel Webster & Henry Clay, the Whig party was formed about 1832 to oppose this president
Jackson
Brad
$400 [27]
This New York City river is actually a tidal strait connecting upper New York Bay with Long Island Sound
the East River
Rick
$400 [23]
You won't find this Egyptian monument's beard on the plains of Giza, but in the British Museum
the Sphinx
Tad
$400 [9]
J. Geils Band:"Love, it's gonna make you cry, I've had the blues, the reds & the pinks, one thing for sure..."
"love stinks"
Brad
$800 [16]
Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"
Cassius
Brad
$600 [11]
In WWII Chips earned a Silver Star & a Purple Heart after landing at Licata on this European island
Sicily
Tad
$600 [3]
One big Whig of the 1840s was this founder of the New York Tribune who popularized the phrase "Go west, young man"
(Horace) Greeley
Rick
$600 [28]
336 rivers flow into this Siberian lake, but only one, the Angora, flows out of it
Lake Baikal
Brad
$600 [24]
It's the British Museum translator seen here
the Rosetta Stone
Tad
$600 [18]
The Searchers:"When I kissed a cop down on 34th and Vine, he broke my little bottle of..."
"Love Potion No. 9"
Brad
DD $1,000 [14]
In "King John", King John's first words to her are "Silence, good mother; hear the embassy"
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Tad
$800 [12]
A memorial was erected for the 25 dobermans who gave their lives liberating this largest Mariana island in WWII
Guam
Tad Brad Rick
$800 [5]
He was the first Whig governor of New York & as Johnson's Secretary of State purchased Alaska for the U.S.
Seward
Tad
$800 [29]
This river that flows to Lyon, France rises from a glacier of the same name in Switzerland
the Rhone
$800 [25]
In 1816 he didn't lose his "Marbles"; he sold them to the British Museum
Lord Elgin
Tad Brad
$800 [19]
Bee Gees:"Keep me warm in your love and then softly leave and it's me you need to show..."
"how deep is your love"
Brad
$1,000 [17]
Title character who says, "Like an eagle in a dove-cote, I flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli"
Coriolanus
Rick
$1,000 [13]
The dog Soter warned the citizens of an attack in this ancient Greek port city founded by Dorians
Corinth
Tad
DD $1,000 [6]
He was the second Whig party member elected U.S. president who had also been a general
(Zachary) Taylor
Tad
$1,000 [30]
This largest Central American lake has several islands, including Ometepe, which has 2 volcanoes
Lake Nicaragua
Tad Brad
$1,000 [26]
Jonathan Harker studies up on Transylvania in the British Museum library at the beginning of this novel
Dracula
Rick
$1,000 [20]
Pat Benatar:"We are young, heartache to heartache we stand, no promises, no demands..."
"love is a battlefield"
Brad

Final Jeopardy!

AMERICAN LITERATURE

"The Mute" was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers)

Tad "What is Atlas Shrugged?" — wagered $2,000
Brad "What is The Miracle Worker?" — wagered $3,500
Rick "What is Giant?" — wagered $3,500

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